battle rank upped / petition

[skater_d]

yes or no to having higher battle ranks.

[TeraHertz]

no.

have higher "abilites" instead.

You get to BR20. Thats enough to be flexible, but restrictive enough to force you a little bit of specilisation, or a weaker generality.

Once you get past BR20, you can gain abilites the same way you do when going up command ranks.

[EarlyDawn]

I agree, no additional points please, I want elite specializations.

[321]

No, we don't want people having all the certs.

[Veteran]

How about Specialists ranks, like when you heal, revive, repair etc. you get experience points towards Engineer Specialist and Medical Specialist. The higher ranks would let you heal/repair faster as well as unlock special abilities on the BANK, ND and Medical Applicator.

Then again, I'm always shocked how little love the support classes get considering they are the least likely to be exploiting and most likely to be self-sacrificing without any form of recognition. Spawn is working? Turrets are firing? That stuff just happens automatically, right? No.

[Sentrosi]

How about Specialists ranks, like when you heal, revive, repair etc. you get experience points towards Engineer Specialist and Medical Specialist. The higher ranks would let you heal/repair faster as well as unlock special abilities on the BANK, ND and Medical Applicator.

Great ideas! What sort of special abilities would you like to see?

[Rayder]

Meh, no super-cert chars. Maybe more detailed characters for people that go above br20.

[Veteran]

For the BANK and ND, I'd make the repair time quicker at higher ranks. I can't think of any new abilities for them, although I'd love to see a BANK size ND for stealthers to carry. Perhaps it could require a higher Engineer Rank and might only hold 50 repair units or something.

As for the Medical Applicator, it would have new settings:

1: Heal stamina on others
2: Heal stamina on self
3: Activate all implants on others
4: Activate all implants on self
5: Revive target faster, at full stamina, with all implants active

Something along those lines. I'm also holding out hope for stimpacks, but I heard some crap that they don't want to send any messages about "drugs" (even though we're blowing each other to pieces, somehow drugs are worse than violent death).

[Katanaboy]

They're not being blown to pieces, they're....lying down to go to sleep...
:)

[Veteran]

And I'm not smoking some chronic, I'm using makeshift incense.

[MuNsTeR]

No

[MuNsTeR]

sry i read thread wrong.. no but make command ranks 2 cert pts each or sometihng

[Otherick]

How about Specialists ranks, like when you heal, revive, repair etc. you get experience points towards Engineer Specialist and Medical Specialist. The higher ranks would let you heal/repair faster as well as unlock special abilities on the BANK, ND and Medical Applicator.

Then again, I'm always shocked how little love the support classes get considering they are the least likely to be exploiting and most likely to be self-sacrificing without any form of recognition. Spawn is working? Turrets are firing? That stuff just happens automatically, right? No.

that has to be the best idea i heard in a long long time

but i wouldnt know wat type of abilities u can un lock

[STEALTHKILLER]

I read this in another thread a long time ago, like once you reach ranks higher then BR 20 you can change the way your armor looks. Not the color though. It wouldnt give you any special abilaties, it would just be like the CR back pack and arm and shin things. Also i think what you guys have been saying would be good too.

[Otherick]

change ur amour? now that is kool, it would show others ur top of the line and would keep lamers away, well at least it should

[Doppler]

Errrrrrrr.....please go back to everquest. If i had my way i'd turn my armor blue again, nothing makes me stick out like a full body gold paint job, I feel like a hood ornament. I want my enemies to either see a blur before they die or only see me as I'm stepping over their corpse. And yes, support classes need some loving.

[Otherick]

well how about some sort of shoulder pad when u reach BR 20, as u have the back pack when u reach CR 5 so why not make the BR 20 stand out aye?

[Lithpope]

Sounds a lot like EQ Altarnate Advancement Abilities. For the record AA abilities broke EQ for a while.

[ZionsFire]

sry i read thread wrong.. no but make command ranks 2 cert pts each or sometihng
:huh:

[VashTheStamped]

i like being maxed out. makes me feel special ;)

[Fenrys]

How about Specialists ranks, like when you heal, revive, repair etc. you get experience points towards Engineer Specialist and Medical Specialist. The higher ranks would let you heal/repair faster as well as unlock special abilities on the BANK, ND and Medical Applicator.

Then again, I'm always shocked how little love the support classes get considering they are the least likely to be exploiting and most likely to be self-sacrificing without any form of recognition. Spawn is working? Turrets are firing? That stuff just happens automatically, right? No.



I agree with everything you said.

Special Abilities:

Better Than New: When a Eng Spec fixes somthing, they can give it 25% more armor than it usualy has (ie an Agile suit could be fixed up to have 125 armor instead of 100)

Adv. Construction:
- Max # of CE deployables are increased
- More powerfull landmines
- Spitfire Turrets double as Motion Sensors
- Front Line Repair Station: A new CE deployable that will repair the body armor of nearby friendlies up to 75% of the armor's maximum value

Ease the Pain: Spec Medics can deliver a electric shock to the part of the brain that receives pain signals, turning it off for a little while. The effect would be 100 temporary points of health. You would loose 1 temp point per second, and if you've taken more than 100 damage and the temp points are all that are keeping you alive, you'll die when they run out unles you get healed first.

Grease Monkies: Spec Eng can deploy a small army of miniature robots into the engine of a veh. to either: slowly repair damage, increase max speed, or increase RoF. The robots would have a short battery life (about 3 minutes).

Boobytraps: Some type of damage dealing CE deployable that could be used inside a base. Proximity plasma bombs? Mini Spitfire turrets with very limited supply of ammo?

Vidieo Survelance: Spec Engies spits have a camera built into them, allowing the Eng to see what its 'looking' at, and maybe even take controll of the turret from a remote location (perhaps a new terminal you need a module for)

Quality: Spec Meds know how to stay healty so they get a bonus to their max Health and Stamina regen rate. Spec Engs tinker with their favorite armor and weapon so they get a bonus to 1 type of armor and 1 weapon (with a 24hr timer to choose a different type of weapon/armor to apply the bonus to)

[MuNsTeR]

what i meant is keep battle rank how it is but make command ranks 2 cert pts each command rank

[Flammey]

Yes, up it to 24.

[Kikinchikin]

Being maxed has distinct advantages and disadvantages

You don't need to worry about kills/base hacks/xp- you can recall after the last base is done instead of waiting, which gives you a jump and you dont have to be an SOI whore.

But... I've been CR 5 for a week, and I must admit PS lost a little bit of its appeal. Maybe it's because I started playing Call of Duty and its new and all. I hope so, because I love PS and I really want to keep playing it.

But to answer the question, no more cert points. I would like to see an ability to customize your armor (color gradients, perhaps some stripes or designs, new kind of helmet, you know.)

[Chaaos]

That is the last thing this game needs... a exp grind. I've had enough of that playing everquest to last me a lifetime.

[Hamma]

Petitions will do you no good :p